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Why Avoiding the Doctor is Men’s #1 Health Problem
From June 9 to 18, Dr. Parekattil and I drove across the country in an electric Tesla for the third annual Drive for Men’s Health, a 10-day, 6,000-mile, coast-to-coast journey that took us from Orlando to Atlanta, Washington DC, New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. As we made these stops, we’ve engaged many men in face-to-face conversations about their health and what they can do to improve it. We also used social media throughout our road trip to engage our followers in much-needed conversation about men’s health issues. This year, we reached over 300 million people with our online and offline efforts, getting men to #dropyourexcuse!
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Google Rolls Out Clearer Symptom Search Features
The troubles with finding health information by “Googling” – or typing your symptoms into an internet search engine – are well-known. From information created by non-experts to pages that present worst-case-scenarios (example: your headache is probably from a brain tumor), internet-surfers can become confused and frightened by the health information found in their search results.
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Europe and the U.S. Have the Highest Obesity Rates in the World — with some Notable Differences
Worldwide obesity rates have more than doubled since 1980, according to the World Health Organization. More than 1.9 billion adults were overweight,
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How to Protect Your Eyes from the Sun’s Rays
You probably know that your skin can get sunburned, but did you also know the same thing can happen to your eyes?
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Breast Density Doesn’t Always Lead to a High Risk of Cancer
For a long time, we’ve thought that high breast density increased a woman’s risk for breast cancer.
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8 Common Myths About Heart Disease — and the Real Facts
Millions of people have heart disease. It is the number one cause of mortality in the U.S., and more Americans will die of heart disease this year than cancer, obesity or diabetes.
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6 Women’s Health Conditions that Affect Men
Breast cancer, genital warts and menopause — what do all these health conditions have in common? If you guessed that they’re all women’s health issues, you’d be incorrect.
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4 Things to Know about the New Food Labels
The new labelling highlights how much added sugar is in food products and adjusts serving sizes to reflect the fact that most Americans eat way one than one serving of food in a sitting. The changes to nutritional labels will begin to appear on products in July 2018 and the FDA hopes the changes will help consumers be more informed about what they eat. Here’s what you should know:
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How to Cope with Trauma
From San Bernardino to Dallas, Baton Rouge and Minneapolis, our country understands tragedy all too well.
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Should I See a Urologist or My Primary Care Doctor?
Most people understand when to visit a general practitioner (GP) — when they have an illness that won’t go away, when they experience unusual pain in a particular area of the body or when they need to get an annual check-up or recommended medical screening. GP’s are the gateway into all of medicines specialties.
